Description

Billington, a township which forms the ecclesiastical parish of Langho, in Blackburn parish, Lancashire, on the Blackburn and Clitheroe railway, 5 1/2 miles NNE of Blackburn. It has a station, of the name of Langho, on the railway, and a post and money order office under Blackburn, which is the telegraph office. Acreage, 3139; population of ecclesiastical parish of Langho, 1458. The inhabitants are chiefly cotton-weavers. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester, value, ?274 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Blackburn. There are two churches, one built in 1880, now the parish church, and an ancient church, formerly the parish church, now a chapel of ease. There are Baptist and Roman Catholic chapels.